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  Each year, the White House grants the Presidential Medal of Freedom to individuals who have made major social, political, and cultural contributions to the country.…

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  Spike Lee (pictured) has never been one to mince words, so when Fusion host Jorge Ramos asked him to during a recent interview to discuss…

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At first there was the offensive Ray Rice costume this Halloween season, now someone has hung a Black family in effigy outside of his or her…

Paranoia about Ebola making its way Stateside has caused many in the media to operate from the space of stupid. It’s not shocking, but no less frustrating.…

White privilege has officially been given a space to be thoughtfully explored…by White people. PBS and documentary filmmaker Whitney Dow launched the first installment of…

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  Young Black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their White counterparts – 21…

Sara Bennett, who lives in the predominantly White neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York’s Park Slope area, reportedly witnessed a New York City policeman yell over the loudspeaker…

It seems never-ending that the presidential office continues to be blatantly disrespected as folks from the highest and lowest echelons of society to continue to take racist…

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Academy Award-nominated actress Viola Davis opened up recently to The New York Times about the “mammy-ish roles” she’s been asked to play in Hollywood. Davis…

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A recent study found that police officers across Los Angeles have averaged about one kill per week for the past 14 years. Most killed are…

Pennsylvania newspaper The Lancaster New Era issued an apology, after running a nationally syndicated cartoon that compared commercial airplane seating to the horrifically crowded and…

T-shirt company FCKH8.com has recruited six young African-American children who were reportedly neighbors of Michael Brown, the Ferguson, Mo., Black teen who was shot to death…